95 Clean and Simple WordPress Themes

Posted by Lars on Jul 1, 2012 in Wordpress News | 0 comments

Simple WordPress themes are very popular, good for usability and typically good as a starting point for creating an individual online look and feel. Lucky for you there are many high quality cool WordPress themes available to pick from. This is why we keep updating this resources with new themes quite often. Website and blog designs certainly can be complex, colorful and overwhelming and many themes for WordPress belongs to that category.

Some web-masters and bloggers on the other hand prefer simple and clean layouts for their sites leaving more space for the text itself to be in focus. Minimalistic designs generally help user find what they are looking for easier and typically they are more inviting and easy to navigate compared to heavy loaded web designs. If you are looking for simple wordpress themes that help your design comply with basic elements of minimalistic design.

I’m sure the list of simple WordPress themes below will be a real time saver and a source of good inspiration. You will find both premium and free minimal WordPress themes organized into two sections. One of the hot and current trends in web design right now is responsive design and WordPress layout builders. The WordPress community have picked this up and there are already some interesting responsive WordPress themes available now and they are worth considering to make sure your site looks great on all platforms including mobile devices. For designers and photographers creating online portfolios I would recommend checking out either some photography themes or  portfolio themes for WordPress. This article have been recently updated with more simple WordPress themes and all links have been checked.

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

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To let you quickly locate the type of theme you are looking for I have created a index allowing for fast navigation. While it is tempting to skip the premium themes to save a bit I recommend you go through the entire post scrolling slowly to have a look at the screenshots. Remember that if you are building a site with a long term business strategy the support and flexibility typically found in premium themes are sometimes worth it. Let’s get started!

• Premium Simple WordPress Themes
• Free Simple WordPress Themes

Premium Simple WordPress Themes

The simple wordpress themes below are good for many purposes as they are clean and have good space for content. Remember that most premium themes are supported, documented and typically well coded by the theme vendors and they are often updated quickly when WordPress is taking large steps in its development. There are many options and finding the right premiumtheme for your WordPress site can be a challenge. I hope this post will help you out.

Passion Reloaded Responsive WordPress Theme

This is a really cool business WordPress theme with great responsive layout and page builder to take complete control of the individual pages.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

TRIM (Responsive theme)

Trim is simple, professional, versatile and fast. Trim might be simple, but with that simplicity comes a sense of balance and crispness that is quite refreshing. Coupled with a bunch of great features, Trim is a great theme that will prove useful for a variety of different websites. Trim is a fully responsive design that adapts to your user’s variable screen size.

MORE INFO / DEMO - by Elegant themes (premium theme)

Shepard – Premium responsive corporate theme

Shepard Premium responsive corporate theme is exactly what you need! Enjoy a great variety of possibilities to adjust your own site to be totally awesome: admin panel, slider manager, form builder and others. Let the graceful design and convenient functionality represent yourself or your company!

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

Flexible Responsive WordPress Portfolio Theme

Flexible is a sleek and minimal portfolio theme packed full of some awesome features. The theme puts your work first, keeping the design elements to a minimum while still maintaining a definitive modern style. With its filterable, ajax-powered multi-media gallery, Flexible is perhaps our most feature-rich gallery theme yet.

MORE INFO / DEMO by ElegantThemes (premium theme)

EVOLUTION (Responsive theme)

Evolution is our first fully responsive design and certainly one the more professional WordPress themes. What makes the theme so special is its ability to adapt to various screen sizes. Evolution come with 4 distinct layouts, each meant to improve your user’s experience when browsing on mobile phones and tablets. No longer will they need to zoom and scroll to view your site, as the theme’s layout will adapt to the small screen and serve your content in an intuitive way automatically. Just try reducing your browser’s window size when preview the theme to see the magic in action!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

AREA53 – A Responsive HTML5 WordPress Theme

AREA53 is a Responsive (full) HTML5 with a cool responsive slider. It’s full featured with the Content Composer to create professional pages in minutes, filterable portfolio and much more.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

GOOD SPACE – Responsive Minimal WP Theme

Good Space Good Space is a WordPress theme especially for creative agency. It’s very clean, minimal with modern design. This theme is also has a responsive ability. Moreover, it comes with tons of features. Including our page items that can be managed very easily via our awesome tool, ‘Page Builder’. Admin panel in this theme is a real feature rich. You can also create unlimited sidebar, choosing over 450 fonts or if you want to use your own, we provide a cufon uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language via this admin panel.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

NOVA

Nova is a sharp, simplistic design that makes for an intuitive user experience. Nova’s biggest strength is its homepage, which allows you to organize your content into two areas. The Featured Slider is perhaps the most versatile slider we have built, and comes with multiple slider variations that breath new life into the design.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

Choices – Responsive Business and Portfolio

Choices is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for business websites and users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and offers support for the WPML MULTI LANGUAGE plugin.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

Slick Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme

Slick is a full Responsive Portfolio theme for WordPress. It’s designed for agencies, creative professionals, web designer, it simply fits for any kind of business. Slick comes with a really amazing responsive fluid layout which allow to display your website on every device. It comes with filterable and animated Portfolio, fluid Homepage Slider, integrated Twitter plugin, Latest Work widget, Latest Blog Post widget, social media buttons and contact form, shortcodes etc… The options panel makes it easy to customize various aspects of the theme including layout, colors, portfolio, blog and other settings.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by themeforest (premium theme)

MODERNIZE – Flexibility of WordPress

Modernize is a new era of wordpress theme. You can discover many new awesome features in this theme. For example ‘Page Builder’, it allow you to create page easily by drag-drop module. Moreover, it comes with many options on that. Also, to change color elements, it won’t be a big deal anymore, with our new admin panel, you can access to almost of all elements color. Admin panel in this theme is a real feature rich. You can also create unlimited sidebar, choosing over 350 fonts or if you want to use your own, we provide a cufon uploader. Modernize has 15 predefined background pattern but if you want to use your own background, again, we have a custom background uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language via this admin panel.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

Responsy WP – Responsive HTML5 WordPress Portfolio Template

Responsy is a responsive html5 wordpress theme suitable for personal portfolios or creative agencies. Responsy has been coded in HTML5 & CSS3 and jQuery. It has a solid flexible responsive layout that scales from 320px to 1170px. This is one of the better WordPress Portfolio Themes available at the moment.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

Daily Theme

This theme offers a clean and simple design but still allows for a lot of content to be presented in a magazine style.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Theme Junkie (Premium theme)

Coraline Ajax And Responsive WordPress Theme

Coraline is a great theme for the creative agency, freelancer or general business. Has a lot of modules are ready for homepage, it’s simple-to-use, customize and install.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by themeforest (premium theme)

Cleanr – Responsive, Minimal, Beautiful Portfolio Theme

Cleanr is a responsive, corporate, beautiful WordPress theme and it just fits perfectly for your upcoming corporate project. Just the right amount of features are included, no extra jib-jabbing, yadda-yadda.

It comes with a handful set of options, like: Responsive Layout, swift AJAX enhancement of Portfolio Items on the Homepage, Portfolio Items support for both Images, Slideshow & Embedded Videos, multiple Post Formats (Audio, Video, Standard, Image) and more stuff which is waiting for you to discover.

MORE INFO / DEMO - by mojo-themes (premium theme)

PIONEER – Responsive drag & drop theme

Get ready for a new and interesting approach to content management in WordPress. Pioneer features a brand new front end admin system that lets you configure your website without going back and forth between the admin and web-page front end.

This theme allows you to, edit your posts and pages directly on your webpage; add, organize and change page elements via drag and drop on the front end; and change your website’s style and  appearance directly on the front end with colorpickers, background-textures, font-selectors ++

MORE INFO  /  DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

I LOVE IT

I love it! is a content sharing WordPress theme suitable for different posts formats. E.g image posts, video posts with automated thumbnails creation, self-hosted videos, audio posts, posts with attachments, combination of all content types. The theme offers many unique features like for example letting your registered users upload posts directly from front-end. The front-end submission permits users to choose their post format: image, video, audio, text and attachment. Each and every single format can be enabled or disabled.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

CHAMELEON Simple WordPress Theme

Chameleons are known for their ability to change the color of their skin. The patterns and color combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and our new theme is no different! Chameleon was created to be a simple and professional theme with loads of customization options that do not require web development experience to utilize.

MORE INFO | DEMO – by Elegant Themes (Premium Theme)

Movable

Movable has a very clean design and is great for showing several elements from various categories at once.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Theme Junkie (Premium theme)

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

ELIST

eList is a verstile clean and simple Directory WordPress Theme. Using eList, you can create an online directory of any type, and allow your visitors to submit new listings from the front end. The theme also comes with eCommerce integration, allowing you to charge your visitors for new or featured listings.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

SPLENDID

Splendid is an elegant magazine-style WordPress theme packed with additional color styles and lots of great built-in features, such as video support, custom page templates and custom widgets.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by WP Zoom (premium theme)

Reason WP: Smart, Responsive, Customizable

A radically customizable responsive theme that promises to do what it says and not pull your leg with silly over-the-top features. It’s designed for users, not geeks – all by a dude in Southern California who just loves making rockin’ WP themes for other folks.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

SWAGGER (Responsive theme)

Swagger is built on top of the all-new version 2 of the Theme Blvd framework. Use the layout builder to accomplish just about anything you could ever think of. Use the slider manager to create as many sliders as you want. Use the widget area manager to create as many widget areas and sidebars as you want. With just the right amount of theme options and flexibility, the power is all in your hands. And with a sleek, responsive HTML5 design, you’ll be sure no one will miss out on your new website built with Swagger.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

DailyJournal Responsive Blog WordPress Theme

DailyJournal is a fully responsive personal blog. It is the first blog theme from ElegantThemes that will automatically adapt to the screen’s size, insuring that your content is always displayed beautifully no matter what device visitors are using. Check the varius layouts (media queries) below or test the theme demo yourself.

MORE INFO / DEMO by: ElegantThemes (premium theme)

THE BUILDER – Multipurpose WordPress Theme

The Builder is a Premium WordPress theme that comes with massive and flexible features. Focused on bringing easiest system for user to build and modify their own site, both on content and layout/design! With homepage manager, you can have any layout type for your homepage. Use single Fullwidth, single sidebar-content, single content-sidebar or mix them into random layout structure. Lots of modules available to use to filled up your content.

MORE INFO | DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

VELVET – Minimal Business Theme

Velvet is a minimal business and portfolio Theme, that uses a very elegant Ken Burns Slider for image presentation. It also has dynamic Template Builder where you can create stunning page layouts without any coding knowledge. Yet if you are a developer eager to create your own PHP files the theme supports you as well with a very structured folder and file system. It has a unqiue built in slideshow manager (no plugins needed), supports both self hosted videos as well as vimeo, youtube, etc and comes with a content importer for faster setup.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

SWIX – Responsive WordPress theme

Swix is an extremely customizable and flexible theme, suitable for almost any kind of website. It is responsive, so it adapts to any device from mobile to high-res computer screens.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium WordPress Theme)

ARES – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template

Ares is The Clean Magazine, News and Blog Template built with latest WordPress features.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

AWARE (Responsive theme)

Aware is a clean and simple interactive, responsive portfolio theme perfect for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike. Its user interactive interface delightfully enhances your most loved portfolio pieces. Now, you can take your portfolio with you, in your pocket.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

SIMPLEPRESS – Corporate Simple WordPress Theme

SimplePress is a simple and clean page-based corporate WordPress theme. It is great for anyone looking to give their website professional look and feel. The theme features a business style homepage with a beautiful well integrated JavaScript slider and clear hierarchy, as well as fully functional Blog and Gallery sections. This theme is part of the very interesting Theme Club at ElegantThemes where everyone can get access to around 70 very professional themes at around half the price of most Premium themes. This is in particular interesting for web designers as they will be able to deliver great websites to their clients. It is even possible to get the PSD files also if some changes will be needed. Check out the video showing the ElegantThemes options framework enabling high flexibility with no-coding needed.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

DEEP FOCUS

With Deep Focus you can turn your WordPress blog into a fully functional online photo gallery while still maintaining all of the features of a normal blog. Along with the gallery layout, DeepFocus comes with a robust blog and CMS-style homepage as well, making it an amazing solution for artists/photographers looking to build an online presence. This is a great pick among the many Simple WordPress Themes available.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

COALITION – One Page WordPress Portfolio

Coalition is a minimal business and portfolio Theme that is created to be used as a One Page Template. With the help of a Template Builder you can create a single page which holds all your content. The theme can of course also be used as a “normal” WordPress theme. In that case Coalition will behave like any other WordPress theme with a blog, posts, pages etc.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

CROSS APLE – Clean Business WordPress Theme

Cross Apple is a elegant and clean theme which suits both, users with no programming background as well as advanced developers. It will help you build your site in no time to your liking with minimal effort. It empowers you to set color to elements such as links, text, menu links, etc. The theme also features 4(Four) Default Home page and single page layout for you to choose from.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

ANGULAR – Responsive Portfolio

Angular comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend. 28 predefined skins (which are easy to modify from your backend), font and color options as well as dynamic template builder will help you create the Website you need in no time.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

Orchid

Orchid is a simple and clean portfolio type WordPress template. It is filled with tons of features but i would say its responsiveness is its key feature. Besides responsiveness it has got stunning looks, which makes your portfolio as beautiful and unique as your work.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium WordPress Theme)

MODEST – Simple WordPress Theme

A minimal WordPress theme with beautiful typography and subtle gradients from Elegant Themes and it certainly belongs in this list of Minimal WordPress CMS Themes.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

UPSCALE – WordPress Business & Portfolio Theme

upScale is a modern business and portfolio Theme, built on one of the most flexible WordPress Themes on Themeforest. With the help of a dynamic Template Builder you can create stunning page layouts without any coding knowledge. Yet if you are a developer eager to create your own PHP files the theme supports you as well with a very structured folder and file system. It has a unqiue built in 3D slideshow manager (no plugins needed), supports both self hosted videos as well as vimeo, youtube, etc and comes with a content importer for faster setup.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

STRIKING CORPORATE & PORTFOLIO WP THEME

Striking is one of the most in-demand simple wordpress themes available right now. It has tons of extraordinary features which are not found in ordinary WordPress themes. It is the theme you buy when you want to create a website in every way you imagined possible. One of the features that this super theme has is its Cross Browser Compatible including IE 9 and and latest, Firefox 4. It also boasts of 4 Different Sliders! Nivo slider! Anything Slider! 3d flash Image Rotator! Accordion slider! Each has a complete control set. With Striking sliders you can display images, video, text, captions, iframes, and more. These are just few of the features that this theme has in its long list of features and capabilities.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

SEVEN WONDERS (Responsive theme)

SevenWonders is a clean and modern wordpress theme that Fully Responsive, which mean the layout will adapt depending on the device screen size.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

PERSONAL PRESS

While niche theme that push the boundaries of WordPress are great and pop up all over the Internet, the initial and still core focus of WordPress still blogging. With PersonalPress ElegantThemes certainly returned to the roots, and created a traditional blog-style theme with a personal touch. PersonalPress WordPress blog theme is a great simple design for those looking to give their blog a fun and light hearted feel. PersonalPress is a great design for those looking to give their blog a fun and light hearted feel.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

MINIMAL WORDPRESS THEME

Minimal is a great theme for those who want to give their blog a truly simple and elegant feel without sacrificing any of the advanced features you have come to expect from ElegantThemes. The colors are easy on the eye, and the overall minimalist approach to the design makes for a relaxing and user-friendly experience for your visitors. This is one of the best simple wordpress themes available – at least that is my opinion.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

Edge – Professional Corporate and Portfolio WP

Edge is a WordPress theme designed with corporate businesses in mind. The theme is also well suited for online portfolios and blogs.

MORE INFO | DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium Theme)

HyperMind

Hypermind is an incredibly easy to use WordPress portfolio theme. Quick to setup and easy to customize, thanks to the powerful admin panel, the detailed manual, and the carefully structured code, HyperMind is the perfect theme for showcasing your most important work directly in front of your visitors. HyperMind has got you covered on all fronts, so if you ever get stuck on anything, rest assured that you’re going to get the help of a professional, if and when you need it, because HyperMind comes with excellent customer support.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium WordPress Theme)

VOLT – Magazine / Editorial WordPress Theme

Volt theme for WordPress is designed for magazine, news and editorial ventures. With content and readability being the primary goal, the theme is designed with flexible layout pattern and decent space for advertisements. The theme introduces a layout swapping option that will let you move the content in desirable location, and is helpful when you are experimenting with visual hierarchy and user eye pattern. Backed with custom widgets, visual short codes, exclusive widget areas and custom page templates, the theme is envisioned to provide you more flexibility and ease-of-customization for your next editorial project.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

PURITY

Purity is a Clean and Minimal New WordPress Theme with a ‘BOLD’ feel that can be easily used as a personal portfolio or a business website. With an extensive documentation and a demo content you won’t have any problems setting your page up.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

INSPIRATION

Create your own web site without any effort! On each page among 7 specially created main pages you may find the most suitable and eye-catching one. And it is not the end, but just the start to implement your own ideas regarding content, because these templates deliver such rate of flexibility that enables you to modify without any problem due to just one click the whole design of the potential web page. Do not waste your brilliant time to technical issues as you are absolutely not requested to deep into the tangled web development world, you only need to be interested in what you do and to wake up your fantasy. Change via simple operation the color spectrum of your future web page. Texts, pictures, scripts, keys, icons and other elements can vary upon your desire. Friendly documentation which is delivered along with the template will provide you with necessary information and simple steps that are to be taken to manage it.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

FOLIOWAY

Folioway is a perfect pixel minimal wordpress theme, not only its clean and elegant, it also comes with tons of features like amazing slider, unlimited colors, etc. It’s incredibly powerful and flexible and easy to use! It is just the best wordpress theme for your or your company’s work presentation!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

NEW HORIZON – Blog & Portfolio WordPress Theme

New Horizon – is perfect for design/fashion orientated blogs or for creative people who’s tired of regular thumbnails grids layouts.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

PROPULSION (Responsive theme)

Propulsion is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for users who want to create a business, portfolio or eCommerce site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous woocommerce shop plugin as well as the bbPress Forum plugin. It comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend. 3 Slideshows, 21 predefined skins (which are easy to modify from your backend), font and color options as well as dynamic template builder will help you create the Website you need in no time.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme) with Drag and Drop Layout Builder

VULCAN – BUSINESS SIMPLE WORDPRESS THEME

Vulcan is a modern and minimalist template best suited for any business website. It is available in five color options, and has three variation slider. Vulcan is also coded to improve capability of the WordPresss 3.0 features.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

WP-CLEAR

Solostream recently released version 2.0 of their popular simple WordPress theme, WP-Clear. This updated version includes numerous new features and layout options with magazine, business and blog layout styles. Other features include 2 content sliders, multiple post and page layout options, integrated banner ad spots, options panel for easy customization and more. This simple WordPress theme is a “must see”.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Solostream (premium theme)

REFINED WP – Simple Portfolio / Business WordPress Theme

Refined WP is a WordPress 3.2+ Ready Premium WordPress Theme specifically designed for corporate / business websites, portfolios, designer or agency websites etc. With a clean minimal design and numerous portfolio layout options it offers a lot of ways to display your portfolio / services and enables you to send a clear message.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

CAP CLEAN WORDPRESS THEME

Every element of Cap is highly customizable through its Theme Options. You can build page-based website or usual blog.

MORE INFO by Natty WP (premium theme)

WP-CLEARPHOTO

WP-ClearPhoto is a Premium WordPress theme designed mainly for photography enthusiasts or anyone who has a portfolio of projects to show the world. With its clean, elegant design, it’s the perfect container to show off your great work. Its built-in versatility and added features also make it suitable for a business blog, website or online magazine.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Solostream (premium theme)

AIRLOCK – Portfolio WordPress Theme

Airlock is the project made for creative designers and interactive agencies. Simplicity, flexibility and attention to detail is the main asset of the design.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

YOURFOLIO SIMPLE PORTFOLIO THEME

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

AUTOMOBILE

Automobile – is one of the themes for WordPress CMS with a sleek and clean design. This is perfect for companies who want to showcase their vehicles and get inquiries about them. Among others, it features Fully customizable front page, Custom Taxonomy, Car Detail Page, Car Listing Page, and Custom Control Panel.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Templatic (Premium theme)

STRUCTURE

The Structure Theme is a set of premium WordPress themes masterfully created with a modern and minimalist design aesthetic.

MORE INFO – by OrganicThemes (Premium theme)

STUDIO960

This 960 Grid based site is built from the ground up to be powerful, customizable and extremely flexible. Each of the custom page templates has options that can be controlled independently and reused to achieve the results you want. Use the same gallery template for a photo blog, grid of type-only posts and a gallery of vacation photos!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

GOOD MINIMAL (Responsive theme)

Good Minimal is a responsive HTML5 & CSS3 , clean and minimalist style theme that is good for portfolio, blogs and businesses. This theme is flexible and is used media queries to adapt screen sizes, whether it is iPhone, iPad and wide screens.

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Company – Responsive Corporate WordPress Theme

Company is a clean and responsive wordpress theme for corporate, business and company websites. This theme also good for portfolio and any kind of websites.

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MINIMALISTICO – Clean WordPress Theme

Minimalisto is a clean and minimalist business Premium WordPress Theme suitable for business, corporate, company and any kind of websites. Minimalisto is fully customizable using the theme options page! This is a good pick among the many clean wordpress themes available.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

DEADLINE

Deadline is a Powerful, Professional, Premium WordPress News or Magazine theme. It comes packed with an impressive array of custom options and widgets allowing you to control the look and feel.

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SILVERIO

Silverio was designed to be easy to set-up and quick to update. Its clean design, time-saving features, customized admin, and Jquery enhancements make it the perfect way to showcase your work.

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THE PAPER CORE – Clean WordPress Theme

“The PaperCore” is an unique, elegant and minimal WordPress theme and it is here to present your business and work in the best way. There are 4 different professionally designed and unique styles. There are 2 stylish Portfolio/ News/ Featured Item sliders that are great to emphasize and present your products. The PhotoShop files are easy customizable and well organized.

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8CELLS – Minimalist and Clean WordPress Theme

8Cells is the WordPress theme for Portfolio, Creative built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Shortcodes, Extensive admin panel etc.

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GALLERY – WordPress Portfolio Theme

Gallery is a premium WordPress theme which can be used for many purposes, including a Photoblog, Portfolio, Personal Blog, Product Reviews, and more!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by WPZoom (Premium theme)

RT-THEME 11 – Business Theme with Product Showcase

WordPress business themes have the tendency to adopt lightweight and minimal design. This is true for the RT series from ThemeForest. One of RT’s five star gems is this clean and elegant corporate template. It has awesome features and sports a very pleasing and professional look that exudes the message that you mean business for your clients.

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Breeze – Professional Corporate and Portfolio WP

Breeze is a WordPress theme designed with corporate businesses in mind. The theme is also well suited for online portfolios and blogs.

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MINIBUZZ

This theme offers a valid html5 code and unlimited color that you can easily change color in theme options. It has 2 Home page slider variations and is compatible with WordPress 3.0. Its simple, clean and minimalist business wordpress theme is not only suitable for business but also portfolio, other blogs.

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CLASSICA – Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme

Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio – the way it should be. Present your work in a professional manor with a timeless design.

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ECHO

Echo is a clean and simple WordPress Theme, but a very powerful and a highly customizable portfolio theme, aimed at anyone who needs a showcase. If you’re looking for a gorgeous portfolio theme, then you’ve just found it.Echo comes with an excellent customer support and a bulletproof documentation file that discusses every aspect of the theme in details, ensuring you don’t face any difficulties in setting up the theme and maintaining it. This is one of the Simple WordPress themes you should check out!

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PULSE

A magazine-styled new wordpress theme, with a unique and flexible layout. The homepage contains multiple widgetized areas, so you can organize the content as you like.

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IMPULSE

Impulse is a Premium WordPress Theme suitable for portfolios, showcases, galleries, photoblogs, personal sites, and more. The possibilities are endless!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by WPZoom (Premium theme)

DAILYNOTES

The purpose of DailyNotes is to make the simplest and most elegant medium possible through which you could share your daily life. The theme is very minimal in its design, and has been trimmed down to the bare essentials. For anyone looking to create a fun and inviting personal blog, I’m confident that DailyNotes will serve you well!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

Elegant Estate

ElegantEstate – one of the great themes for WordPress CMS – is a full-feature WordPress CMS theme for real estate websites. The theme makes browsing your listings easy, and adds special integration features for property info, photos, Google Maps and more. Help increase sales by establishing an elegant and professional online presence today.

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GridFolio WP

GridFolio is a clean, minimal, single page grid-based WordPress theme. Perfect for a porfolio site but can be used for any number of purposes.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

Vimes

Vimes is a simple & elegant theme for WordPress, designed especially for design agencies, photographers and artists, but which can be easily used as a traditional blog theme.

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Simple Portfolio

The Simple Portfolio is the ultimate solution for a powerful, yet minimal portfolio based theme. The theme is designed with an unobtrusive, minimal approach that focuses the viewers attention to the artwork displayed on the site. The Simple Portfolio displays imagery and text beautifully in a clean layout. Portfolio’s are manged as categories, and can be displayed in a 1, 2 or 3 column layout. The theme utilizes custom post types to manage featured slides and blog entries, while all portfolio content is added using traditional WordPress posts. Creating a beautifully simple and professional portfolio site has never been easier than with the Simple Portfolio.

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Adventure – Clean & Simple WordPress Theme

Adventure is an awesome clean & simple WordPress Theme which could be suitable for almost all kinds of business .You can use it as Business template, Your personal portfolio or even a Blog. It’s comes with valid well written code, working contact form, google maps and much more.

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Free Simple WordPress Themes

If you are looking for a clean and minimalistic design then the free simple wordpress themes below are worth looking through. Keep in mind however that typically free themes are not supported and they may not be updated when WordPress is taking large steps in its development.

Colorway

Colorway is Simple, Elegant and beautiful Theme with Easy Customization Options built by InkThemes.com. The Customization Options includes using your own Logos, Backgrounds, Analytics and your own Custom Footer Texts and Analytics that can be tweaked using Theme Options Panel. Colorway Theme is Single Click Intall feature, Just press activate button and your website will get ready with all the dummy content.

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EndoMag

One of the best theme options page for themes on WordPress, and EndoMag is a prime example of it. This News/Magazine theme has an option to change just about anything on the website, from the number of menus to the “read more” tags on your posts.

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Modern

Here’s one more from Marios that you’re sure to love (as long as you’re into super-clean, killer looking Swiss design style themes!

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WP-DEV Dojo Minimalist WordPress Theme

Dojo is a minimal, web-standards, SEO-friendly theme with two dynamic sidebars and an editable “about” blurb. It includes support for custom stylesheets and widgets.

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Imbalance

Imbalance is an excellent choice for any online magazine, blog or portfolio websites. This free wordpress theme designed with a contemporary modern vibe in a minimalistic style. By the use of Imbalance theme, you can easily fresh-up your project whether it is a blog or i-magazine. In consideration of additional features and flexible layout it is a very user-friendly theme that can attract new visitors to your web-site.

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Buddymatic Minimalist WordPress Theme

Buddymatic is a highly extensible Theme Framework for WordPress & WordPress MU blogs including BuddyPress enabled home and member blogs. This framework features 13 widget-ready areas, drop-down menus, grid-based layout samples, plugin integration, shortcodes for your footer, & a whole lot more.

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Thematic Minimalist WordPress Theme Framework

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Manifest

A clean and streamlined theme that focused on the content and not the distractions. It utilizes a single column, 500 pixel wide layout. No sidebars. No widgets

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Modern Clix

Modern Clix is a minimal blog theme inspired in the Swiss Style of Design: It features Arial/Helvetica, grids, a generous use of whitespace for better readability and a strong focus in typography.

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Hybrid Minimalist WordPress Theme Framework

Hybrid is a user-friendly, search-engine optimized parent theme, featuring several custom page templates and multiple widget-ready areas, allowing you to create any type of site you want.

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Oulipo

Inspired by and named after the group Oulipo, this clean, minimal, grid-based theme was created for authors who want their content to shine. Three-column simplicity with an eye for typography

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The Journalist

The Journalist, or redefinition of minimalist, is a smart, sophisticated WordPress theme designed for professional journalists.

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Information Architects

The iA³ WordPress theme is simple, fast, clear, with full focus on readability. It is based on the actual theme we use on the iA website.

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Simpla

Simpla is an clean, minimalist theme developed for WordPress.

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Lead

Simpleness is the secret hint for every great designer. You don’t need big bangs, an overkill of colors or sexy bitches for getting attention. Just you and your wonderful words are enough to rule the world. Choose the “Lead WordPress Theme” if you want to create a minimalistic and little wonderful world of dreams and fantastic phantasies.

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Green Earth – Environmental WordPress Theme

Green Earth is designed to best fit the business and non-profit organization that need environmental style. It comes with a new feature ‘Custom Slider’ which allow you to manage slider freely. You can discover many awesome features in this theme. With ‘Page Builder’ in this theme, allow you to create pages easily by drag-drop module. Moreover, it comes with many options on that. The admin panel in this theme is real feature rich. You can also create unlimited sidebar, choosing over 450 fonts or if you want to use your own, we provide a cufon uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language via this admin panel.

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